Farmington craft fair with 100 homemade pies this weekend

FARMINGTON — This Sunday, the Woman’s Club will host the community’s first ever Pie and Craft Fair inside the Henry Wilson Memorial School gymnasium.

The Woman’s Club worked for the last several weeks to bake about 100 pies for the event, which will be on sale for $10 a piece, with meat pies for $15, to help raise funds for scholarships and other club events. The club members explain everything is made from scratch, from the crust to the filling. In addition, the club has secured 47 crafters for the event, some of whom come from as far away as Massachusetts and Maine.

Kathy King, who worked to organize the event with several others, said she believes the event, held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18, will bring the community together.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if we saw 500 people,” she said. “It’s kind of brings the community together because we have a lot of people in Farmington that do crafts. We’ve had a lot of community members offer to donate pies or buy pies. I think it involves all the different segments of the community and not just the Woman’s Club.”

Susann Foster Brown, a juried crafter from Milton, will be present with items from her Cellar Brook Farm along with Farmington’ own Stephanie Piro, a local cartoonist, and Jane Wingate, a local author and photographer.

The event will also feature raffles and a concession stand by the local Boy Scouts Troop 188.